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On this week’s SlatePolitical Gabfest, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin recall election and Bill Clinton’s off-message campaign remarks, and they interview Jack Hitt about his new book, A Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character.

Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:

Emily chatters about the unpopularity of the Senate and lifetime judicial appointments as expressed by contributors to Slate’s Hive series, “How Can We Fix the Constitution?”

David chatters about a pair of New York Times articles: The first about a Buddhist couple that lived no more than 15 feet apart from one another and the second about the bizarre twist in the story that ended in a death. You can find his Slate experiment trying to live no more than 15 feet apart from his wife, Hanna Rosin, here.

The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)

Podcast production by Andrew Bouvé and Dale Willman. Links compiled by Aviva Shen.